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title: "Cinderilla, would you not be glad to go to the ball?" — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "Cinderilla, would you not be glad to go to the ball?" Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 37

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"Cinderilla, would you not be glad to go to the ball?"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not be, go · **To what, where:** ball

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:11:37
# text = "Cinderilla, would you not be glad to go to the ball?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the ball |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial\_Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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